From Michael Jennings, “how the corporate downsizing of AOL Time Warner led to a mad New Zealander making three movies of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.”
But, for now, some stories can have happy endings. (At least one insane bearded New Zealander is now insanely rich. And I think a world in which insane bearded New Zealanders can become insanely rich by making ludicrously over-ambitious movies is better than one where this is not the case).
(Link from Scott Wickstein, The Eye of the Beholder)